A masterclass in resilience
Teaching children resilience An article in The Times gives good advice on building resilience in children. The basic idea is that parents shouldn't jump in to remove stress from their offspring.…
4. The power of acceptance
What is acceptance? Acceptance means, firstly to accept that you are a human being having both good and bad experiences, and both are created through the power of thought. The…
3. Ecstatic consciousness
Ed Mitchell's journey through space In February 1971 Ed Mitchell, a pilot on the Apollo 14 craft, flew back to Earth after a successful moon landing. He was about to…
2. Personal change will happen, whether or not you do anything about it
Personal change is inevitable People will change whether they want to or not. From babies into children, from children into teenagers, from teenagers into adults. During the course of the…
1. The power in normalising problems
What is normalising? Normalising is the art of reframing the problem from ‘weird’ and ‘alarming’ to ‘expectable’ and ‘soluble’. Expectable in terms of the cognitive and emotional characteristics of clients,…
0. How people change (New series on personal change)
Personal change I have been a student of personal change ever since I was a depressed teenager reading Dale Carnegie's How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (although that book…
Keeping Brief therapy brief
What is Brief therapy? Brief therapy does not necessarily mean 'fast therapy'. What it does mean is a focus on creating personal change for the client in each and every…
Defusing anxiety
Defusion is the art of extracting yourself from an unwanted thought, a feeling, a memory, or a hallucination about some future event. Not resisting, resenting or running away from any…